Another thought is that an alien species have affected us and just want to keep us stagnant for some reason … kind of like how we hold young cattle in restraint to raise controlled beef that will produce nice soft supple muscles - veal that is a delicacy to eat … maybe an alien race is just raising and controlling us to harvest a steady supply of dumb humans for some reason.
best case scenario is we’re one of those “gotta break the prime directive here because jesus fucking christ” scenarios
I’m just having trouble envisioning which species might have enough empathy to bother. Perhaps some help from our own past.
Shortly after…
Hmm… maybe the Kelpiens.
Never mind. We’re screwed.
Another thought is that an alien species have affected us and just want to keep us stagnant for some reason … kind of like how we hold young cattle in restraint to raise controlled beef that will produce nice soft supple muscles - veal that is a delicacy to eat … maybe an alien race is just raising and controlling us to harvest a steady supply of dumb humans for some reason.
The Romulans are definitely trying to mess with time to keep humanity on Earth
It is said ignorance is bliss, so they’re probably making drugs out of us.
Breaking Bad - The Galactic version
Ed: Take a ride on the Milky Way!
We’d get the ones who take one look and say “we’re not letting them fuck up our society”.